T. S. Rajesh
Dr. R. V. Rao
Abstract
Even though certain methods were proposed in the past to address the issue of selection of appropriate plant lay out selection for a given manufacturing industrial application, there is a needfor a systematic and logicalscientific method or mathematicaltool to guide user organizations in taking a proper decision. The objective oflay out selection procedure is to identify the pertinent selection criteria (both quantitative and qualitative type) and to select proper lay out by eliminating the unproductive ones. This paper presents an effective decision making framework for plant lay out selection in manufacturing industries using a multiple criteria decision making method, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE). The proposed decision making framework is practical for ranking lay out design in terms of their overall performance with respect to multiple criteria. An example is included to illustrate the approach.
Keywords- Plant layout, Multiple criteria decision making, PROMETHEE.